We’re All Pro-Palestine. But Who Decided That for Us?
Intro – “Share if you’re human.”
But what if you’re just part of an emotional machine?
In 2025, if you haven’t posted the Palestinian flag at least once, you feel guilty.
If you haven’t written From the River to the Sea, you feel complicit.
If you haven’t cried over a video from Gaza, you feel cold. Wrong. Inhuman.
But here’s the real question:
Do we get outraged by choice… or by protocol?
Over the past year, the pro-Palestinian narrative has flooded the streets, campuses, and digital feeds.
But how much of that is true political consciousness?
And how much is the result of algorithmic, ideological, and geopolitical engineering we barely notice?
1. The Outrage Algorithm
Gaza is burning. The images speak for themselves: children under rubble, screaming mothers, bombed hospitals.
Social media isn’t a window to the world. It’s an emotional theater, pre-programmed to pull you in.
💥 Strong emotions = clicks
⏳ Clicks = screen time
💸 Screen time = profit
Justice goes viral only if it’s monetizable.
A more devastating tragedy with less visual impact? You’ll never see it trending.
2. 2024: Palestine Is a Tent, Not a Flag
In 2024, the symbol of Palestinian solidarity is no longer the keffiyeh or the flag.
It’s a tent — pitched on university lawns from Harvard to Bologna, from Columbia to Sciences Po.
Students protest their universities’ ties to arms manufacturers. They demand divestment. They denounce apartheid.
It all looks spontaneous, idealistic, horizontal.
But scratch the surface, and you’ll see the machine.
- 📌 Student collectives tied to radical organizations
- 📌 Foreign-funded NGOs and philanthropic foundations
- 📌 Well-oiled international networks and — in some cases — government influence
Yes, spontaneity exists. But it’s channeled, guided, and systematized.
On many campuses, the Palestinian cause is fused with a melting pot of identity-based struggles: queer theory, decolonialism, animal rights, anti-capitalist environmentalism.
Gaza becomes a moral platform, a symbolic totem hosting dozens of often unrelated battles.
Palestine is no longer a geopolitical cause — it’s a container.
A tool to legitimize pre-existing ideological agendas through strategic syncretism.
So who sets the narrative? Who chooses the slogans?
Not always the students. Not always the Palestinians.
In this logic, protest becomes branding, activism becomes performance, and solidarity becomes storytelling:
emotional, powerful — but rarely free.
3. The Arab States: Solidarity in Words, Deals in Practice
- 🇶🇦 Qatar funds Hamas and hosts its leaders, but is also a key U.S. military ally in the Gulf.
- 🇪🇬 Egypt claims solidarity but routinely blocks humanitarian aid at the Rafah crossing — in the name of national stability and Sinai control.
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 🇦🇪 the UAE strike billion-dollar tech, defense, and energy deals with Israel thanks to the Abraham Accords.
- 🇮🇷 Iran openly supports resistance — not for love of Palestinians, but to challenge Israeli and U.S. power in the region.
These regimes use Palestine as a rhetorical lever, not a strategic cause.
They exploit it for internal legitimacy while prioritizing regime survival and economic advantage.
Meanwhile, Arab citizens watch the tragedy unfold through screens, scrolling through Instagram and TikTok while their leaders sign tactical agreements with Tel Aviv, Beijing, or Washington.
This is the new geopolitical logic: disenchanted, transactional, fluid.
Solidarity is performance. Identity is strategy.
The value of Palestine depends on what others can gain from invoking it.

4. Lobbying, Media & Propaganda: Who’s Really Winning the Narrative War?
How is it possible that the famously powerful pro-Israel lobby — capable of influencing Hollywood, U.S. politics, and European media — is losing where it matters most: in people’s hearts and feeds?
Spoiler: they haven’t lost. The battlefield has changed. And they’re no longer fighting alone.
- 🌐 AIPAC spends millions lobbying U.S. politics, and Hollywood has built decades of storytelling around Israel’s legitimacy and survival.
- 🇶🇦 Qatar owns Al Jazeera, one of the most influential global media networks, promoting a militant editorial line and funding NGOs, influencers, academics, and think tanks.
- 🇮🇷 Iran operates a transnational propaganda network targeting anti-imperialist and leftist communities.
- 🇹🇷 Turkey pushes a soft-power narrative to influence Muslim communities in Europe and the Balkans.
Pro-Palestinian messaging feels real. Raw. Human. It hits you. It’s built to spread. And it works.
This is information warfare. A cold war of content, emotion, and outrage.
And we? We’re the weapons.
5. The Final Paradox: Manipulated and Manipulative
The pro-Palestinian movement is strong — but deep in a grey zone.
It’s manipulated by its backers.
And manipulative because it’s mastered branding, storytelling, virality.
💬 Criticize Hamas? You’re Islamophobic.
💬 Question “From the River to the Sea”? You’re reactionary.
💬 Ask for nuance? You’re problematic.
Critical thinking is the first casualty of performative militancy.
Conclusion: Every Man for Himself, Gaza for All
In 2025, Palestine is everywhere — in feeds, chants, profiles.
But is it really anyone’s?
Activists use it as a mirror for their identity politics.
Governments use it as a diplomatic bargaining chip.
Media turns it into emotionally-charged content.
Gaza has become the perfect symbol — for everything but itself.
Because a truly free, unpredictable, autonomous Palestine?
That doesn’t serve anyone.
Better to keep it wounded. Evocable. Useful.
🧩 Final Question — Do You Still Think Your Opinion Is Truly Yours?
Think about it.
Where does your outrage come from?
Why do you take a side?
Who convinced you it was the right one?
Support for Palestine — absolutely legitimate —
cannot be reduced to emotional marketing.
And Israel — as flawed as any state —
cannot be flattened into a villain for social media.
Truth isn’t something you scroll through.
It’s something you question, dig for, and confront.
We are not truly free unless we’re willing to doubt everything —
even what we think we know.
🧠 Doubt everything. Even yourself.